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Migration and borders — or more precisely, the spectacles of “border crisis” — have taken center stage in public debate and policy interventions in migrant-“receiving” countries, worldwide. Across the globe, alongside an escalation in border violence, there has likewise proliferated a variety of reactionary right-wing (“populist”) political and social movements that can only be adequately characterized, very frankly, as anti-immigrant fascism. In this context of alarmist yet incessant discourses of migrant/ refugee/ border “crisis,” nonetheless, extra-state formations of anti-immigrant violence merely amplify and supplement the more fundamental violence of the border enforcement regimes of state powers. That is to say, the populist enthusiasm for an increasingly authoritarian politics of borders and migration tends to simply intensify and extend the inherently authoritarian and despotic character of how borders serve as premier sites for the enactment of a state’s sovereign power, particularly as targeted against non-citizen border crossers. Reciprocally, it is this rather routine border authoritarianism that then animates and fuels a wider drift toward right-wing political authoritarianism. Thus, the increasingly fascistic political discourses of “civil war” that depict “domestic” or “internal” rivals as political “enemies” and social “threats” derive much of their elemental momentum from the nationalist metaphysics and nativist ethos of border “war.”
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